passengers on a cruise liner can reportedly see the california coast from their ship. the luxury vacation turned into a five-star disaster after an engine room stranded them without power, hot water or working toilets. we'll talk with one of the passengers in just three minutes. well, we've, of course, followed the back and following over the military don't ask, don't tell pose. would it be repealed, would it stay in place? but how risky would it be to actually lift the band while at war. a pentagon study group assessed not very risky. we'll talk to the reporter who broke that story. president obama starting two days of walks with the world's most powerful economies at the gme g-20 summit in seoul, south korea. we'll have a live report from seoul where a deal that could bring 70,000 jobs to america now in the works. >> hopefully, that will go through.

meanwhile, the voters have made it clear, this last election, the government upset with government spending and wanting it to stop. the question then this morning and every morning, okay, what wow then cut? well, a bipartisan commission is out this morning with their list. >> it's not pretty. look, everybody knows you can cut the deficit and cut the debt. here's some of the proposals that touch you and every american that come from the bipartisan commission. first, gradually raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. you remember the protests in france that were spurred by the idea of raising the retirement age two years from 60 to 62. we're talking about raising it to 69. on taxes, eliminating or scaling back some of the most popular writeoffs, including the mortgage interest deduction. tax increases would be offset by replacing the current tax rates with just three of them, 8%, 14% and 23%. it's all pretty tough medicine for the american economy. and it came with a dire warning. >> we're clearly on an

unsustainable path. we can't grow our way out of this problem. we can't tax our way out of it. we can't cut our way out of it. every single member of congress knows that the path we're on today is not sustainable. if we don't bring these deficits down and eventually get the balance, we are headed for disaster. >> if you're one of those people who cares about this sort of thing, you're wonder writing we're talking about this at 6:00 eastern in the morning, in the cnn election poll 39% of americans say their highest priority for the next congress is reducing the deficit. a greater number than said that congress should be spending to create job us. and even greater number than said cutting taxes a priority. this is the biggest priority in this economy for many, many voters. >> it is. christine romans is brings in some perspective on this. a pretty dramatic proposal. you heard what they said. at the end of that sentence, you

can't spend, tax or grow our way out of it. he said it has to be a combination of those three or more. what do you think? >> and you need economic growth, too. one of the things they're trying to make sure, they don't stunt economic growth right away, folks. let's talk about the scope of the problem. you're talking about a national debt now, almost $14 trillion. unsustainable. when you start paying so much interest on your debt, at some point that eats into what you, as a country can be investing in, say, education, defense, new roads. and that say time that many people who watch these things can see and be in the foreseeable future they want to prevent disasters. they're trying to cut $14 trillion out of the deficit. already the knives are out. the president is in seoul, south korea saying, look, before you knock anything down, let's hear what the commission has to say and let's see what the final report is.

there's painful medicine. nancy pelosi saying this is simply unacceptable. you have dick durbin saying there are things in there that i hate like the devil hates holy water. even as you're seeing the overall tax rates simplified and lowered. you guys, this is going to be a difficult process, no question. the difficulty that you're see on the streets of france, ali, as you mentioned. the difficulty in greece. in the uk. >> rioting yesterday. >> it's all about belt-tightening. and western economies have spent more than they've taken in for so long, that belt tightening is in order. there's also some talk here in this report about how to make sure that congress has to live within its means. an automatic tax increase and spending cuts if they go beyond what they're supposed to do. what happens? how likely is all of this? you've got to have the 14 of the 18 members of this commission have to agree. it's sent to congress and then congress has to enact all of this.

it's a lawn way to go here but it say start if something has to be done. >> we'll follow it in greater detail through the morning and the next few days. >> sure. >> i want to be clear that nancy pelosi was upset with the social security part. nobody wants to tamper with social security. progressives don't want social security touched. >> the evidence is you've got to tamper with it. you've got to tamper with everything. everything's on the table. >> thank you, christine. >> also this morning, you can't buy something called four loko in the state of washington. i didn't even know what four loko was. >> don't try to be high brow. >> the liquor control board banning the alcoholic energy drink nicknamed blackout in a can yesterday, after a group of college students got sick last month. basically 23 1/2 ounces in a can is equal to drinking a six pack of beer and a catch red bull and a shot of espresso. the manufacturer says the

products are are being unfairly targeted. christmas is coming early at google. the tech giant is giving the entire staff $1,000 bonus for holiday expenses. across the board, a pay hike effective january 1st. google confirmed the news that was leaked toed media. the problem is, that employee was fired. >> why, they're a good company. they give their employees 30% of the time to work on projects. >> the federal government may be a good place for you to look. "usa today" reporting that the number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more has jumped to ten times the level it was just five years ago. now, this revelation comes as republican congressmen called for a pay freeze, or a pay cut, for federal employees. odds are there are a couple of students in your kids' class that have adhd.

the cdc says nearly one tenth of children have the hyperactivity disorder. two-thirds of the children diagnosed with the disorder are taking medication to control it. there's also a big countermovement about this, saying that we're too quick to diagnosis children with adhd, especially young boys because of what we consider paying attention and not paying attention in class. >> and what teachers can control. a hyper kid, if you can get them on medication can make them left hyper and easy to control. they're still counting ballots in alaska. so far good news for lisa murkows murkowski. she's battling joe miller. she's a write-in candidate which means each has to be examined. right now, miller trails write-in ballots by about 11,000 votes. well, we're getting reports that passengers on board the

crippled carnival cruise liner actually see the california coast, that's certainly got to be a welcome sight for them after they've been trapped on the boat after the engine died. five toe boats are towing the line tore port. meanwhile, pop tarts and spam loaded on to the ship. that's the cruising food that you're looking for when you pay thousands of dollars to set sail. the ordeal began monday that left the ship literally dead in the water. no hot water. for a time, no working toilets. one of the passengers jones us on the phone this morning. lenore ra chavez. thanks for joining us, lenore ra. >> caller: hello. >> i bet you're thrilled to see the coast of california. what has been it like for those of you on the ship? >> caller: oh, gosh, it actually hasn't been too bad. i think that everything has been

pretty organized. everybody, you know, is in really good spirits. they've entertained us. we've had lots of music. and just the other night, we did get all of our supplies. they did board liquor, not only was there sodas to drink, but also alcohol for those who wanted to have alcohol. but overall, i mean, it's been pretty bearable. and i think that they are really trying their best. to make us comfortable. so it hasn't been so gloom and so bad. it's okay. a lot of passengers say they're fine, they're okay. they're happy. >> the good news is, it's almost

over. having a little bit of trouble with your connection so we are going to cut it a little shorter than we were going to. good luck, lenora, you're eager to be on dry land. that you may or may not accept carnival's offer for a free cruise. you can imagine, though, you saved up all your money, you just were so excited to go on a cruise. >> they're going to refund the money and give people a free cruise. the issue is the time you take off work and the fact you that might get scarred by this. there are a lot of cruises, this doesn't happen. >> have you sailed? >> i haven't done it a long time, but i like cruises. imagine getting stuck for a few extra days out there. i'm not sure that would be terrible. it is ten minutes after the hour. let's get a quick check of the weather headlines. rob marciano is in the extreme weather center. good morning to you. >> yes. it could be worse, a three-hour cruise and be stuck on an island with the same clotheses.

>> for decades. >> that sounds like you can make a sitcom out of that or a show. >> are we dating ourselves talking about "gilligan's island?" >> i think so, little buddy. >> go on. >> 42 degrees right now in new york. mild temperatures across the midsection of the country. that's been the big weather story the past fuel days. unseasonably warm temps, but that's beginning to push farther to the south. new york city and parts of the new england corridor. 41 degrees seems to be a popular number this hour. it will rebound nicely. that will keep you on the cool side. on the radar there is rain trying to get itself over the midsection. that will eventually spread through chicago. kind of a front that's draping diagonally from the western great lakes back to the southwest. that will bring snow to denver. 69 degrees expected in chicago, with showers developing. nashville, 79 degrees.

country music awards last night. not sure who won all the stuff. believe it or not, i taped half of that. >> i know brad paisley won. i know that zack brown. >> that's who i knew. >> you know that song "chicken fried? "you love that song. >> all right. gilligan. they certainly botched this. we always see these perfect implosions, this one not so much. the smokestack fell the wrong way during the demolition. it sent people running for their lives. we're going to see how close it came and what the aftermath was like. and everyone gets a toaster this year. $3 appliances. one store's ridiculous black friday discounts. >> which store will be it? >> we'll tell you for sure. it's 12 minutes after the hour.

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♪ welcome back. it's 16 past the hour. right now, the richest nations in the world are fighting over money and how to fix the global economy at the g-20 summit which is taking place in seoul, south korea. at this point, president obama is attending what is being called a working meeting with

world leaders. the fed planned that germany finance minister called clueless. >> a lot of people saying the u.s. is forcing the u.s. dollar down, making things more expensive for people around the world. tensions in security are high in seoul. demonstrators have broken out, and riot officers have been deployed. and widespread protests are expected today. dan loathian is traveling with the president. he joins us live from seoul this morning. dan, the president went there with high hopes about a deal or auto makes, a deal that might have resulted in jobs here in the united states. it seems like that is not working out the way the white house wanted it to. >> that's right. it's this trade deal, south korea trade deal, which, of course, we have been told that possibly could have been done during the g-20. and now president obama saying that both sides really have agreed to slow down. make sure that they get this right. that this will happen not in a matter of months, but in a matter of weeks.

the trade rep for the u.s. ron kirk saying this is a difficult negotiation process, but that he believes that her closer to the end of this than to the beginning. as you pointed out the sticking point still over opening up the south korean market, a tight market for beef and automobiles. >> also, dan, there's a report out this morning that white house adviser david axelrod is accepting that the administration is ready to except an across-the-board bush tax cuts? are you hearing anything more about that? >> the white house says there's nothing new here. this is something that the president has been talking about in terms of being open, negotiating this issue. the president obviously had sort of dug his heels in on this, prior to the election cycle. but after that, when talking about how he would move forward with this -- you know, the republicans having the leadership in the house now, the president had said he would be open to negotiating on this.

the white house releasing a short time ago from white house deputy spokesman jan sockky saying, quote, the president has been clear that extending tax cuts for middle class families is his top priority. he's opening to compromise to get that done. he's also concerned about the making the highest tax cut permanent and is looking forward to discussing this and other issues with bipartisan congress next week. again, the president saying he's open to compromise as to moving this issue forward. tax cuts for middle class families is still what he wants. but he wants to make sure that he's open with republicans now in charge of the house. >> dan loathian for us in seoul, south korea. thanks so much, dan. >> my heads been spinning with all the changes on don't ask, don't tell. can they go ahead with it? do they stop it? do they repeal it? but now we have a survey, basic, on the risks of don't ask, don't

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that's new to me. >> you like this? >> well, we're a little bit far. >> yeah, a little bit far. it's for your lighting purposes. you don't want to come out of your light. because you're a morning talker, and they need to be able to see you. go with that. 23 minutes past the hour. we're talking about stories that got us talking in the newsroom. when ali's filling in, really, really we talk a lot. we barely make it out here. first of all, it failed the wrong way. if you take a looks this is a smokestack demolition in springfield, ohio. usually, these things go really well. however, this one did not. the smokestack fell in the wrong direction. you hear it snapping power lines. you hear people screaming in the background. and spectators, including children. >> why are there spectators? >> people love to come to these sort of things. people ran.

it was a 275-foot tower, is it snapped the power lines and crushed part of the substation. no one was hurt. traffic lights out and 8,000 people in the area lost power. >> i also assume when you're going down the highway that they're carrying one of those trucks that carry cars that they never come off. i talked to someone who operates them, they said they come off with some frequency, so don't drive behind them. sears is the first time it's open after thanksgiving day. they're trying to get a jump start on the holiday season. sears is also offering e-gift cards that apparently you can post on someone's facebook wall. >> wow. you may want to start lining up yesterday if you want the deals. a website leak a copy of what it says is target's black friday flier. $3 appliances. a 40-hdtv for $290 bucks.

a sony blu-ray player for $99. >> i feel like people leak these things. like the google thing for the raise. new stars rising in nashville on country's biggest night, the 44th annual cma, country music awards last night. the entertainer of the year went to brad paisley. miranda lambert and blake shelton and the zac brown band won best new artist. >> you may know them for the song "chicken fried." or you may not. >> it appeals to me. gwyneth paltrow showed she's a little country last night. at the cmas she belted out the title track of her new album "subject strong."

how did she do? let's listen. ♪ ♪ but i won't stay that long ♪ i'm country strong yeah i'm country strong ♪ >> i think she did a nice job. >> that makes one of us. >> oh! >> she just wasn't smiling. >> you are a critic. what did you think about wolf when he danced on "ellen"? do you remember that? >> everything wolf does is fantastic. he had a little hip into it. no, i needed to see either gwyneth smile more you should have brought you as a backup dancer. >> the reason i'm talking ago ellen, you remember when wolf blitzer was on "ellen" when you're on "ellen" you got to

dance. apparently you the r&b community did not ask wolf to dance. he was the guest announcer at the most soulful show in entertainment, the soul train awards. even wolf saw irony in that. he's also up for reggae artist of the year. i'm kidding. airs on november 28th. we cannot show you what happened inside. but we caught up with him on the red carpet. >> it's a surprise. i really can't talk about it too much because the audience is going to be pretty happy when they see what i'm going to do. but it's going to be a lot of fun. it's not exactly "the situation room," it will be a little different. a different side of wolf. i was growing up in buffalo, new york. and i remember vividly saturday mornings watching don cornelius and all my favorite groups. jackson five, the groups, we had a lot of soul.

that's why i'm here, "soul train" was part of my life. >> there's something about his delivery on that, he's fantastic. i love wolf. he's so consistent. >> he said it's not going to be "the situation room," but will it be "theization gentleman" you never know. still to kushlgs the first live soldier honored. swheel you how to reduce the effects of aging without expensive creams or having to go under the knife. that sounded strangely like an infomercial. [ female announcer ] last year, the u.s. alone

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♪ you make me smile like the sun fall out of bed sing like a bird dizzy in my head ♪ time for the top stories. iraq's leaders reaching for a new deal to form a new government and the eight-month gridlock in the country. it allows nuri al maliki to keep his position. homeward bound. passengers aboard a crippled carnival cruise liner say they can see land, matey! the california coast is not far from the ship. it turned into a five-star

disaster after an engine room fire stranded them without hot water, for a little time, no toilets. carnival is offering passengers refunded and a free cruise in the future. >> some are saying, i'll do that. others are saying, no thanks. washington state now the third to ban the sale of alcoholic energy drinks four loko. others call it blakeout in a can. it sickened many college kids. it goes into effect november 18th. oklahoma, utah and michigan have similar measures. so then it would be the fourth state to ban this, right? >> something like that, yeah. >> okay. >> i didn't know the drinks combine them all. they say blackout in the can because it keeps you awake so you drink more and more. hey, the military can lift its ban to gays serving in the military. "the washington post" says a pentagon study group reached

that conclusion about don't ask, don't tell, in a draft to the group's report to the president which is due on december 1st. ed o'keefe is the reporter who broke the story. he joins us on the phone from washington. ed, good to hear from you. this is a study, but actually based on a survey of active and retired military members? >> it was based on a few different pieces of information. the biggest was a survey that was sent over the summer to 400,000 active duty and reserve troops. and then there was a separate study that was sent to about 150 military spouses. there were some focus groups. and then a study was conducted, an extensive amount of independent research as well. >> let's pretend it's election night on cnn. break it down for me in terms of what the overall was and how it broke down in groups. >> well, if we understand it from our sources, about 70% of the troops who were, you know,

who responsibilitied to the survey have said that there would be, you know, little or nonexistent opposition among them to serve on the side of openly gay servicemen. yeah, we don't know exactly, at least, what the opposition was in each of the branches. but our search has said at that opposition is about 40% in the marine corps which is the highest among the different departments. >> i was speaking to barbara starr, she said that's not entirely unexpected of the marine corps. other branches of the military tend to be a little more conservative. >> not only that but you've seen the current and former marine commandant being pretty vocal in changing the policy. the marine corps is one that follows the orders from the top. when you hear the top ranking with questions about this. there's perhaps more skepticism among the rank and file who are

probably hearing this from the demand dant, but they're also hearing it from other commanders slightly higher than them. >> ed, great reporting on this. we'll look forward to the results when released. ed o'keefe, the reporter from "the washington post" who broke the story on the new report. today, of course, is veterans day. a soldier who want into the line of fire to save the life of his comrade and the rest of his unit it happened near the border of pakistan on october 2007. now sal junta is the first living soldier to receive the award. barbara starr sheer with an a.m. original to tell us more about this heroic man. >> this young man a few years ago was working the fast food circuit in the midwest wondering what to do with his life. he joined the army, and next tuesday, he will step into the pages of american history. >> the whole time frame maybe lasted anywhere between like two

minute, three minutes. and five or six lifetimes. i don't know. >> reporter: but in those two, three minutes, army staff sergeant sal junta went from a self-described mediocre soldier to a hero. that october night, giunta was walking with other members of his unit, designed to protect soldiers as they were walking back to their base. >> a single shot. everybody started getting down behind cover. there's not just one of them, not two of them. it's not ten of them. probably more than ten, they're really not that far away. >> you actually watch the guy who is aiming at you. >> it seems like your world is exploding in bullets and rpags and everything. >> we've looked and it was along our whole side. along our flank. >> reporter: hit eight times with the man in front, walking point, as the military says, sergeant josh brennan of mcfarland, wisconsin.

he talked to his dad mike only a few days before. >> actually, he had volunteered for that mission that day. >> reporter: on that ridge line, josh brennan was down, severely wounded. sal raced ahead into the face of taliban fire. >> he got to the front, he dragged one away. wounded another one. recovered sergeant brennan. brought him back to an area where we could secure him and continue to fight. started the aid on him. for all intents and purposes, the amount of fire was still going on in the conflict at the time, he shouldn't be alive right now. >> reporter: sal giunta keeps insisting he doesn't deserve the nation's highest military award for heroism. >> when i first heard that they were putting me in for the medal of honor. i felt lost. i felt kind of angry. it came at such a price. it's very bittersweet. it's such a huge honor. it's a great thing, but it is a

great thing that has come at a personal loss to myself and so many other families. >> reporter: and that is what you want people to know? >> absolutely. >> reporter: we went to italy to talk to sal giunta, and he told me that he wants to accept his award on behalf of all of the men that he served with in this place in afghanistan is so vicious, so violent, it became known as "the valley of death." we talked to sal in italy. and then went on to afghanistan to talk to the other men that he served with who are still on duty there. and they are expected, hopefully, to be at the white house next tuesday when this ceremony takes place. >> wow. it is amazing how he was able to express to you that bittersweet feeling. >> i thought that was interesting, yeah. >> he's a young man. he was almost thrust into this. obviously, he didn't does-x for it any step of the way and he really has a good perspective on it. >> he really does. this is a young man in considerable pain.

one of the things he said at the end was, he is deeply honored to receive the medal. he'd rather have his friends back. >> right, right. fascinating story. thank you, barbara. >> thanks, barbara. still to come, you can slow down the effects of aging without undergoing radical surgery, spending millions on die y diets and creams? >> i'm comfortable with aging. i'm uncomfortable with my nose, not aging. >> we can help you with that. with the stress. it's good for everyone. 39 minutes past the hour. we'll be right back. you could never deliver this much power

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♪ oh, if is were only that easy, right, not to worry about a thing. we worry, we stress. we also spend billions of dollars trying fight aging, between the gyms, possessions, each surgery, we're all trying to fight off the ravages of time. we also hear that stress ages us. now, there's new research to back that up. stress ages us down through the cellular levels. through lifestyle changes, things we eat, things we do can slow down the ages. thea singer is the author of

"stress less." she joins me live from boston this morning. good to see you, thea. >> i'm so happy to be here. tell us more about this. we all know that stress is bad for us, bad for our health. talk about the direct link between stress and aging. >> right. we've heard for years that stress can make us sick, that it can contribute to all kinds of diseases. cardiovascular diseases. but this new research that was sparked by dr. black burn actually shows that stress can physiologically age us. >> you said the best way to see this is think of a shoestring and the little plastic end at the end of the shoestring. >> absolutely. i have it here. >> how is that end at the end of

the shoestrings how it like our cells? >> these are in our cells, our nucleus, like chromosomes like two xs crossed at the end. at the ends are tips called tilameres. the reason for the shoe laces is to keep the it from fraying. they keep the dna safe because our dna rests on our chromosomes. when cells divide, skin cells divide, immune cells divide, when they divide, tilameres get shorter. people with certain diseases have shorter tilameres than people who are healthy. scientists look at the length of these tilameres, they look at it as a marker of aging. >> our goal is to keep them long

and impact. i want to show you some things that slow down or reverse aging. one seems counterproductive. don't diet. why not? >> right, right. well, studies have shown that rigid dieting, really having to hold to a particular schedule actually raising our levels of cortisol which is our money stress hormone. so that can work to erode the tilameres. what we need to do is make weiss choices about eating. in the book, i talk about walt willet's health eating pyramid. we're putting ourselves in control. when we're out of control, when we feel overwhelmed, that's when we primarily feel stressed. >> that sort of links into the belly fat. cortisol is what causes us to retain the belly fat. that's a sign of stress as well. why eating pistachio nuts though? >> eating pistachio nuts, a study down by sheila west at

penn state university shows that eating pistachio nuts can slow down and relax our blood vessels response to stressors. you don't want to overdo it but you want to eat in moderation. this is alarming evidence. there isn't a lost science out there showing actual foods that can help to reduce stress levels. >> omega 3s, as we talk about that in fish and other grains. number four, be optimistic, hang out with friend, sleep, dance. this is part of overall wellness. why does this make such a difference? >> it makes a difference because what's happening now in the field of tilamere and stress and research, is that links are being made between physiologically stress and what's happening to ourselves. yes, we know, it's good to get exercise and get enough sleep and eat well. but it wasn't until this research came out that we realized that had it actually

had an effect on how we were aging. for instance when i go to the club now to work out and i'm on that treadmill, i can almost see new brain cells growing. and i can also see my tilameres lengthening. because there have been studies done with twins that show those who exercise a moderate amount have longer tilameres than those who are sent tear. >> back called "stress less." thea singer, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> my pleasure. meanwhile, ali, i know were you taking notes -- >> i was taking notes. when we come back from the break, i'm going to talk about the deficit. one of the issues about the deficit is what should you cut, your interview made me think, don't cut the ends of the shoe lace. how do you cut the deficit and not make things bad for the economy. do you push retirement age or something like that. these are the problems of the president's retirement commission. we're going to talk about that

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laces. it's less fun when you have to put the shoe back on. >> i spent the entire break trying to do that. i hope you have something. are we talking for a little bit or something that i can finish putting my shoe on. >> you can put your shoe on. half the country is enjoying sunshine and beautiful weather. the other half is getting rain and snow? >> they're, it's that time of year. good morning, guys. it's warm on the east side. and it's kind of cool out west, except for los angeles which will see the santa ana winds blowing today and tomorrow. 49 degrees right now in chicago. and also 49 degrees in atlanta. western great lakes certainly getting into warm weathered. and record-breaking weather, as a matter of fact. here's the cool front. snowing behind in denver. this is kind of going to stay near a day or two. a little storm will develop along it and bring rain to chicago. before it does that, that will keep temperatures fairly mild as the heat pump from the gulf of mexico continues to surge up towards the north. and most of that cool air will

remain out to the west. records set in rockford, illinois. waterloo, iowa, 69. minneapolis, 68 degrees. often heard of as the ice box of the country, not yesterday. 69 degrees for chicago. not too shabby, 69 degrees in d.c. guys, back to you. >> yeah, that was an unduly complicated shoe lace strapping thing. >> glad you're squared away. >> rob good to sigh, my friend. all right. it's called blackout in a can. that's the nickname for it. it's now being banned in one state. it's a controversial malt liquor called four loko, we'll tell you more about that. are you a night owl or a morning person? if you're smarter, do you sleep in? go back to bed right now. we'll find out who has the edge. 53 minutes past the hour. now i can stop pain from any angle-- with no mess.

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to of jobs. that is the tip of the iceberg. we are breaking down the dramatic action proposed to slash trillions of dollars from the u.s. deficit. the controversial alcoholic energy drink we've been hearing a lot about lately, four loko, there are new restrictions this morning. four states now banning the so-called blackout in a can. it comes after a group of college students got sick after a night of bing drinking. and an extension of those tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, even for the wealthiest americans. late-breaking details from dan loathian who is traveling with the president in south korea. first, though, a lot of people made it clear in this election, one of the thing this were concerned about was government spending, the rising deficit and debts. the question this morning is

what would you cut? well, president obama's bipartisan commission is out with their list. >> right. it was supposed to be out december 1st, but they leaked it themselves. and it's not pretty. here are some of the proposals that touch you and every other american. first, gradually raising the retirement age from 67 to 69. two years. on taxes, eliminating or scaling back some of the most popular writeoffs, including the mortgage interest deduction. the united states is the only developed country that offers this morning interest deduction. and the tax increases would be offset by replacing the current tax rates with just three tax rates. 8, 14 and 23 at the federal level. it's pretty tough medicine for the american economy. and it came with a dire warning. >> we're clearly on an unsustainable path. we can't grow our way out of this problem. we can't tax our way out of it. we can't cut our way out of it.

every single member of congress knows that the path we're on today is not sustainable. if we don't bring the deficits down and eventually get the balance, we are headed for disaster. >> as keeper said when we started this. clearly, this is something that you care about. in our national exit polls taken last election day, last tuesday, 39% of americans who voted say the highest priority for the next congress is to reduce the deficit. that was fold very closely by people who think the government should be spending to create jobs. cutting taxes was 19% of the population. despite of the fact that everybody says everyone wants to cut taxes. apparently, most people are concerned with cutting the deficit. >> let's bring in christine romans to talk more about this. a dramatic proposal. it say proposal. how this shakes out in congress is the story. highlight the changes. >> there are a lot of changes. we're talking about cutting military personnel. we're talking about freezing spending on the federal level. you're talking about cutting thousands of federal workers.

you're talking overall, huge impact. everyone would feel this. this, i want to be clear, this is the story of our time. and it's just beginning and these are just proposals but is this how it all starts. what's the problem? the backdrop here is $14 trillion of national debt. this say number that is going up with no end in sight. this commission is tasked by trying to figure ought how to stop the rise of red ink. we are spending vastly more as a country than taking in. the recession made it worse, but it had already been started before that. and many people on both sides of the aisle think that something has to be done. all the solutions are dramatic. this is just a grouping of all of them. again, $4 trillion over the next decade is what they're hoping to cut that deficits to slow the ascent of the national debt. already the knives are out. look, not everyone's going to be happy. from the beginning, we knew no matter what this commission was going to do or say there would be people who would not like the

solutions. among them, house speaker nancy pelosi who says it's simply unacceptable. dick durbin, there are things in there that i hate like the devil hates holy water." in touching social security you the program, in terms of balancing our budget and our debt, republicans are opposed to raising taxes. they do not want to see taxes go up in this proposal. it was actually a set of proposals. it's not even the final proposal from this body. but in this proposal, there are simplified tax rules. >> right. >> but also getting rid of a lot of deductions. $1 trillion in deductions, folks, that frankly, americans and businesses are addicted to. >> right. being able to write up your mortgage interest, that's a huge incentive to buy a home as opposed to rent. >> we're told that incentive wasn't necessarily the best for the country. no other country offers that. and lot of other countries have the same hoernlship rates.

>> and one of the them is cutting the tax deduction for loans over $500,000 for second homes and the like. >> less expensive homes you could still get. >> there's something about controlling health care, paying doctors less. not paying for health care. there's a lot in there. >> cyst steerngs the issue different fr different than health care? where it was all hoopla? >> you hope it's a starting point now that horse trading begins behind closed door. there are 18 people on this commission. 14 of them have to agree on the proposal to give congress. a lost people are thinking maybe this gives the president and congress political cover. >> right, saying here's a whole bunch of smart people who came together. >> when you look at yesterday, pictures in the uk, students raiding the conservative headquarters. the burning in the streets in france. i'm telling you, this is the story of our lifetime now how

we're going to pay for what we've already spent and get things simplified and get them to make sense again. >> the president said before anybody goes commenting, gather the facts. >> the full report is december 1st. let's understand it. let's all study it. >> these would also phase in. it wouldn't happen right now. if you're generation y, you're the one seeing the big differences in your retirement age. someone who is a senior right now, nothing is changing for you. let's make sure the fearmongering doesn't start on that that somebody is trying to cut your benefits. this is all phased in, long-term stuff, but things that have to be discussed. >> christine, thank you. blackout in blane. the liquor control board banned the alcoholic energy drink yesterday after a group of college students got sick from drinking too much. four loko, that's what it's called. goes into effect november 18th. oklahoma, utah and michigan have similar measures. the manufacturer says it's

product has been targeted unfairly. people are joking that google has a lesson for its employees, don't tell the world how well we treat you or you'll be fired. apparently, one person missing out on this 10% raise and other goodies is the person who leaked that word to the media. >> that does puzzle me. >> the federal government is paying out more and more six-figure salaries. the number of federal workers earning 150,000 orders more has jumped to ten times the level it was at. it called for a pay freeze or pay cut for federal employees. odds are there are a couple of students in your kids' class that have adhd or perhaps your kid does as well. the cdc says one in ten children is being diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder. it's not clear if it's actually to a rise or actual awareness.

two-thirds are on medication to control it. it looks like senator lisa murkowski's edge is growing in alaska. the incumbent is battling tea party candidate joe miller as a write-in candidate. the count could last into the weekend. apparently miller trails write-in ballots by about 11,000 votes. well, they're almost home. this morning, passengers on board "carnival splendor" say they can see the coastline. a welcomed sight after being stranded. five tugboats are towing that ship to shore. an engine caused it to be stranded. >> reporter: executives for the cruise line say "splendor" will be pulled by tugboats into san diego harbor at sometime around midday. that's on thursday. carnival also promising the

passengers on board the ship. that they will get full refunds. they'll be put up in hotels if need to. some have been shuttled to long beach where many parked and many will be flown out of san diego. in the meantime the "uss ronald reagan" played a big role helping out at sea. that vessel is back on maneuvers today. as you can imagine after airlifting some 60 pallets of food, supplies, water and the rest on to the carnival cruise ship. this was quite a different mission for many of those pilots who have been supporting u.s. troops in places like iraq and afghanistan. >> it's very rewarding. what we do, obviously, there's goods and bads when you're in the middle of warfare and doing your job. but this is all an upside. we're helping out people that are in distress. it's an opportunity, actually, to improve the lives of a lot of folks that were in dire straits. it's a great opportunity. >> reporter: the aircraft carrier pilots dropped 60 pallets of water, food and other supplies on to the carnival

ship. who's going to pay for all of this? carnival is going to pick up the cost of supplies. while the u.s. navy is going to pay for the fuel, the aircraft and the rest. don ver kaman, cnn, coronado, california. let's get a check of the weather headlines. rob marciano is in atlanta. >> hey, guys. we're going to try to sprinkle sports into the weather. we want to show you video out of bowling green, ohio yesterday. and we had a problem with fog there. came down to the final play of the game. trevor cook kicked the game winning field goal for miami. of course, i'm not sure you could even see it. nonetheless, miami over bowling green, 24-21. dense fog advisories over that section of the country today. warm air is one of the reasons and the gulf of mexico. some cool nights will lead to fall. we've got advisories out for the lower hand of michigan and northwestern ohio.

automatic. some rain trying to move into chicago. that's where the warm air is. some snow moving into denver. might see an inch or two of that today as the snow makes its way to the east. ahead of it, it's going to be warm. we have record-breaking temperatures as far north as international falls, minnesota yesterday. we'll see some records probably across inand ohio with a high of 74, at least, expected in st. louis. another sports reminder, falcons/ravens tonight. fantasy football folks, get your lineups in. >> you're talking to such a large group of people when you say that, it's actually scary. >> yeah, everybody's in it. see you, guys. so much for if you snooze you lose. a new study suggests that night owls have higher i.q.s than people who get up early. why have guessed otherwise. i would think that hard workers get up. and night owls party so much. the fact is, we offend no one if

we talk about how this is wrong that morning people are smarter than night owls because night owls aren't watching us. >> exactly, they're still snoozing. the news is if you'ren early bird, you tend nosh reliable than night owls, you work harder and get better grades. we both took this quiz and we sort of came up in the middle. >> we both were in the middle. we were separated in the middle. we're both neither night owls or morning. don't you think when you do this, you should squarely be in the early morning category? >> right. the sbuz building. prince william and kate middleton reportedly ready to announce that they are tying the knot. >> i've wasn'ting for this for years. >> the author of the book "william and harry behind the palace walls," she'll tell us why the time is right to pop the

question. >> we love to watch implosions. this one was botched. the smokestack fell in the wrong direction during that demolition, sending people running for their lives. we're going to have more on how it all turned out. 12 minutes after the hour. 7 7

well, today is veterans day, it's the dha ay that we take so time to pause and honor those who served honorably in the military. >> you're looking at pittings from arlington national cemetery. vice president biden will be there laying a wreath on the

tomb of the unknowns. more than 4 million people visit it annually. well, the richest, most powerful nations in the world are now fighting over how to fix the global economy. it's happening at the gment-20 summit which is in seoul, south korea, this year. president obama is attending a working dinner with other world leaders he's forced to defend a plan to dump millions of dollars into the economy. that was the fed attack last week. security is very tight in seoul. demonstrators have already broken out, more than 50,000 police and riot officers are deployed. and a seven-foot wall has been built to shield the summit from widespread protests expected to take place today. dan loathian is traveling with the president. he joins us from seoul this morning. darngs a short time ago, we heard about a possible deal that the white house is working on that would result in jobs here in the united states. we also heard that that deal ran into some trouble? >> reporter: that's right, and

that's the u.s./south korea trade deal, treat trade deal, which is the u.s. said is worth about 70,000 jobs back home, could pump $10 billion back into the u.s. economy. this, agency you know, the administration has been talking for some more quite sometime, hopeful that this deal could get done during gment-20. but the white house the president saying today they've decided that this wasn't going to get done within the next few hour us. and that they should slow things down. and the president in a joint press conference this afternoon saying he wants this to get done perhaps in the next few weeks or so but not months. this is critical to the white house because the president has been increasingly looking overseas to create more jobs back at home. we saw in india, the deals that were done you $10 billion worth of deals for airline engines, and the t-17s as well. association the white house, increasingly again, looking to

the free market to create job us. again, the president hopeful that this deal can get done in the next couple of weeks, ali. >> speaking out of news on the home front, this morning, david axelrod saying that the bush administration is willing to accept the tax cuts across the board. what are you hearing about that issue? >> reporter: the white house is saying that the president is open to this issue. white house deputy spokesperson jen psaki saying the president is clear he's opened a compromise to get that done. and he's looking forward to discussing this and other issues with bipartisan congressional leaders next week. the president's big concern has always been that by extending this tax cut for the wealthiest americans, it would cut about $700 billion. this is something that he says at that u.s. simply cannot

afford. but clearly, after the midterm elections, the president saying he's willing to negotiate to get this moving forward. >> dan loathian for us in seoul, south korea, thank you. well, she is playing the country music star on the big screen. gwyneth paltrow had a guitar and a mike and rocking out. how did she do? >> i thought she did nicely. >> we'll let the people decide. and from "the situation room" to the "soul train" awards, wolf blitzer going old school r&b.

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♪ ♪ take me to new york i'd love to see l.a. ♪ 23 minutes past the hour. time for the morning talk. >> is that gwyneth paltrow singing? >> no, that was estelle. the stories that got us talking this morning. first of all, we love a good implosion, right? >> i do. but there's no reason for anyone near them. >> people like to go watch the implosion in person. it's very exciting. >> this one you see in springfield, ohio, not so good,

right? >> right. unless it goes wrong, which is what happened here. what happens is, they're trying -- >> implode something? >> yes, that's obvious. show it, please. what they're trying to do is knock down -- there you go. that's 275-foot tower. and it snapped. it went the wrong way. it snapped power lines. it crushed part of the power substations. no one was injured, but they had traffic lights out. 8,000 people in the area lost power. >> there's no reason to have kids near that. >> people that went to see it had to run for their lives. >> don't be a spectator. watch it on tv. new stars rising in nashville on the country's biggest night, the 44th annual cma awards. entertainer of the year went to brad paisley. and zac brown won the best new artist. and miranda lambert and blake shelton. >> guess who else was out there.

>> gwyneth paltrow. >> she showed she's a little country last night. she went to the cmas to belt out the title track of her new movie "country strong." where she plays a country music singer. so here's a listen. ♪ you prove me but i won't stay that long ♪ 'cause i'm country strong yeah i'm country strong ♪ >> i thought she did a great job. >> a little anemic. it wasn't bad. she's probably nervous. >> you are a tough crowd. >> well, she's a country star she should be out there. >> what did you say about wolf blitzer when he was on "ellen"? >> i said he did a good job. >> dancing? >> yeah.

did a great job. >> did you see me dancing? >> but i think if you were really on "ellen" you might get a little nervous. i don't know if you'd bring it like wolf did. >> wolf can bring it. apparently the r&b community did not see him dance. wolf blitzer was the guest announcer at the most soulful awards in entertainment. he's up for reggae artist of the year. >> good luck with that. >> no, he's not. it airs november 28th. we can't show you what happened inside because it airs on november 28th. we caught up with him on the red carpet. take a look. >> it's a surprise. i really can't talk about it too much because the audience is going to be pretty happy when they see what i'm going to do. it's going to be late of fun. it's not exactly "the situation room." it will be a little different. a different side of wolf. i was growing up in buffalo, new york, i remember vividly saturday mornings watching don cornelius and all my favorite group, whether the temptation, the four tops, gladys knight,

the jackson five. they were all there. the kids were dancing. we had a lot of soul. it was very, very cool. that's why i'm here. "soul train" was part of my life. >> he had a lot of soul. >> he's a big music fan. anytime i've worked with wolf, he really loves music. >> you know what else, he's watching us right now as he runs on the treadmill as he does every morning. >> so i shouldn't do my imitation of "ellen"? is prince william ready to pop the question. coming up the author of "behind royal walls" is here to tell us why a royal wedding could soon be in the works. ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] the newest seasonal flavors are here. ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays.

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i worry about my son playing football. which is why i'm really excited. because toyota developed this software that can simulate head injuries and helps make people safer. then they shared this technology with researchers at wake forest to help reduce head injuries on the football field. so, you know, i can feel a bit better about my son playing football. [ male announcer ] how would you use toyota technology to make a better world? learn how to share your ideas at toyota.com/ideasforgood.

we're drawings the half hour. time for a look at our top stories. a powerless cruise ship closing in now on san diego harbor. five tugboats are towing the "carnival splendor" back to port after an engine left 4,500 passenger and crew stranded. carnival is offering refunds as well as a free cruise. the leaders of the president's bipartisan deficit commission released their preliminary proposals for cutting the u.s. deficit. these are long-waited proposals. among the recommendation, gradually raising the retirement age, eliminating or reducing the

tax deduction for home mortgages. and cutting defense spending by $100 billion. it's all designed to cut $4 trillion from the u.s. deficit over the next ten years. president obama is honoring veterans day in south korea today where he paid tribute to the generations of men and women who served in u.s. military and called the korean war, quote, a victory for freedom. you're looking at live pictures. this is arlington national cemetery where just in a few hours, 11:00 a.m. eastern time, vice president biden will be there to lay the wreath ton the tomb of the unknowns. we're looking at one brave soldier, he may have saved the entire squad when they came under fire. that's him. on tuesday, sal giunta is going to be honored at the white house with the medal of honor. barbara starr with his incredible, incredible story. >> indeed the nation's highest

medal for valor. when i met giunta, he told me just a few years ago, he'd been working at a subway sandwich shop, mopping the floor. all by himself, listening to a radio commercial that the recruiting station downtown was giving away free t-shirts. he said he wasn't doing anything with his life. he decided to go and get a free t-shirt. just a few years later, he is stepping into the pages of american history. >> the whole time frame maybe lasted maybe between like two minutes, three minutes. and five or six lifetimes. i don't know. >> reporter: but in those two, three minutes, army staff sergeant sal giunta went from a self-described mediocre soldier to a hero. that october night, giunta was walking along a ridge line with other members of his unit, assigned to protect other soldiers as they were walking back to their base. >> and single shot rang out. everybody started getting down behind cover. >> there's not just one of them.

it's not two of them. it's not ten of them. it's probably more than ten. and they're really not that far away. >> you actually watch the guy pulling the trigger aimed at you. >> it seemed like your world is exploding in bullets and rpgs and everything. we looked it was along the whole side. along our flank. >> reporter: hit eight times was the man in front, walking point, as the military says, sergeant josh brennan of wisconsin. he talked to his dad just a few nights before. >> actually, he volunteered for that mission. >> reporter: on that ridge line, josh brennan was down, severely wounded, sal giunta raced ahead into the face of taliban fire. >> he got to the front. he killed one of the guys that was dragging our team leader away, sergeant brennan. wounded another one. recovered sergeant brennan. got him back to the area where

we could get him and started the aid on him. for all intents and purposes the amount of fire that was going on in the conflict at the time, he shouldn't be alive right now. >> reporter: sal giunta keeps insisting he doesn't serve the nation's highest military award for heroism. >> when i first heard they were putting me in for the medal of honor. i felt lost, i felt kind of angry. it came at such a price. it's very bittersweet. it's such a huge honor. it's a great thing, but it is a great thing that has come at a personal loss to myself and so many other families. >> and that is what you want people to know? >> absolutely. >> and indeed, when sal giunta on tuesday stands next to president obama at the white house, he told me, he will be accepting this award on behalf of all of those who served in a very violent, vicious place, in the war zone. a place that became known as "the valley of death." >> now, these stories, when you hear them about medal of honor

recipients, they're so remarkable. i mean, these are just so beyond the norm. and beyond the call of duty. but for him to say what he said there, that he felt uncomfortable. he felt -- >> angry? >> -- angry. i mean, there's remarkable honesty in that. >> this say young man who is remarkably candid. he makes it very clear that he has a lot of mixed emotions about this. he is honored, but he is adamant. it is on behalf of all of those who served. and it is especially on behalf of josh brennan and the men of cumindosa. the men who didn't make it back. >> we have people defending our freedom here. >> absolutely. on veterans day, so many need to be remembered. homelessness. joblessness, very high in the veterans community. not everyone makes it back and able to resume their lives in such a normal fashion. >> that's a good thing to remember. thank you, barbara.

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course, when will the future king marry, right? it looks like prince william is finally coming to a conclusion. >> who said that? who told you that? >> told me what? >> is that out? all i hear, they talk about it, they may be getting engaged. nart. >> they may be getting closer and closer to the time. after eight years of dating. two high-profile breakups. the prince and his girlfriend kate middleton appear ready to tie the knot. >> they call her "waity katie" because she's waiting so long. in 2011 around the corner, katie nicholl is the author of "behind the palace walls." i'm canadian, this royal family is my royal family. >> it's a wonderful royal family to have as well. >> it's kind of is everybody's. americans in particular are very interested. we'll get to why in a minute. are we going to see a royal wedding or at least a royal engagement? >> all the signs in the uk, we

are. you're absolutely right. it's been on. it's been off. it's nine years of this fever speculation. if you look what's happening over the last few weeks, it's very significant. probably the most important thing is kate's parents were invited ed td to balmoral. and i found out that kate's having a whole wardrobe tailor made for her for a special event. then i found out at that royal mint are manufacturing a commemorative coin. now, that only happen if a royal wedding is in the offing. >> wow. >> all the signs of that. >> you also talk about which is interesting in your book, this pact was made in vacation when they were in st. shales together. tell us about that. >> you remember they split up in 2007. when they got back together, william decide they had needed some time together. he whisked her off to his private island. over there, they made a decision.

kate was "waity katie." he said i've got to finish my military training. once that's started. this will pave the way for us to get married. you are the one. i love you deeply and we're going to end up together. when she had the security with the pact gave her the confidence to go along with the relationship. "waity katie" i think it's well worth the wait. >> when i met my in-laws i didn't get a special wardrobe tailored. i didn't want to create expectations every time i'd see them and get my hair done. >> i'm so glad you don't have to get your hair done when you see your in-laws. >> yeah. >> she has made a huge effort with everything. not just the clothes. every time she steps out. she's a beautiful, beautiful looking girl. >> she is. will there be this comparison, inevitably, katie? >> i was just going to say, there is going to be. >> can she measure up? >> i think she can measure up. luke at diana when she started

dating charles. she was shy. you look at the pictures of her in that see-through dress, she didn't know what to do. the palace have helped her. they've aided her in introduction into public life. that means she's not likely to make the same mistakes that diana did. she's wear of the paparazzi. she knows not to talk to the press. she hasn't had a hair out of the place and that's great. >> that said, they haven't had a great track record of royal weddings of one of late. is that something that is done, or due diligence that suggests that under the relationships under the stress of any relationship works under is likely to work? >> i think the thank that they've been together for so long is going to make it worth. also, they've lived together. this say thoroughly modern romance. his father would never have enjoyed the privileges. they were living together at st. andrews. they're living together now pretty much as man and wife.

they've had all this history together. >> you mentioned something as well that may or may not be key for people who have seen why the princess diana situation didn't work out. why fergie and andrew didn't work out. they both when talked candidly felt they were undermined by the palace and by the queen's people. whereas, you said that kate has the support. how will that make a difference? >> it's going to make a huge difference. you can never imagine kate middleton doing something like the panorama interview. it will never happen. she's been trained from the start. she stays within the wound dris. we've never heard her speak, not once. she's never given an interview. getting information for her in this book, i can tell you, was a challenge. >> that's a good sign, though? >> absolutely. >> all right. well, we look forward to and our viewers know about it as well. willm and harry "behind apalace walls. "i love the royal watch.

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wow, what a pretty sight this morning? almost makes you wish you were in miami, doesn't it? >> yeah, rather than here in new york? i want to be somewhere else. >> the clouds are puffy, it's beautiful. 75 degrees. >> i'm saying we're probably compelled to say something like that if we show a nice picture of miami, right? can't say glad i'm here and not there. >> right. a little later we'll show a picture of central park and you'll be happy. there's snow in the rockies. it's heading east. rob's here to tell us more of what to expect across the country. it's like two different countries right now, rob. >> it is, it's a double-edged sword when you see the pictures of miami. you don't want to get people upset. it's a good time of year to head to southern florida. that's for sure. actually eastern east of the rockies or maybe east of the red river valley of texas and the northeast. record-breaking temperatures, 15 to 20 degrees above average today. the flip side, yeah, the record

cold driving down. this time of year, you'll get the troughs and big ridges that building the weather pattern as we transition from summer into winter. sometimes, we get, a lot of places, indian summer which is defined as the first freeze and then very warm temperatures which is what we're seeing right now. the snows are going to stay probably in denver. you can see a couple inches of snow in that area. this rain trying to get into chicago, riding along that front which is going to make slow progress to the east. that warm weather will hold true for a good couple of days. northwestern parts of ohio, southeastern parts of michigan and northern eastern indiana, looking at some fog this morning because of that warm, moist air. rockford, illinois, meanwhile, 73 degrees. anyone m

minneapolis seeing 68 degrees. 74 degrees in los angeles with the santa ana winds blowing. it can be warm, dry this time of year. so cal, not a bad spot to be in. trying to make everybody happy. like a politician sometimes. >> rob, you're doing a great job, you're keeping everybody happy with the weather. at least trying. >> you got it. >> staten island, new york, this morning there's talk about turkeys and they're watching where their step. turkeys have taken over the neighborhood. about 100 of them running loose. someone released a handful of the birds ten years ago and they've multiplied. the community is divided on what to do with the birds. >> hello! divided on what to do with them? we're a couple of weeks away from thanksgiving! >> people caring for them and feeding them. people think it's nice. >> trial counsel free range at the best. >> two weeks from -- i don't know free range birds in new york. some people would like them -- >> that's as free range as you can get.

you can't drive across the street. >> people want them served at local shelters two weeks from now. officials are taking a survey to decide whether to implement the thanksgiving option. >> everyone knows me, i'm an animal lover. but i do -- >> you draw the line at turkeys? they're food. >> as long as the animals are treated humanely, fine. but yeah. we're talking about rising costs in food. >> living free in staten island. is that humane? >> yes. happy right now but if they are -- if the thanksgiving option is used, you can go to feed some hungry people, and the turkeys are not harmed -- >> an animal lover unless it comes to your dinner? >> the turkeys are treated mu mainly on the way to the table. >> no inconsistencies with that perspective. >> what can i do? why does it have to taste so good? grainy cell phone video.

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cases of cancer patients, corpses, cases and rotting lungs and gums. >> good. let's not lie to people. for years people smoked because they didn't know, didn't have the evidence. the evidence is there. put it on the box. save some lives. odds are students in the kid's class with adhd. the cdc says one out of ten has attention deficit hyper activity disorder. they don't know if it's a rise in the disorder or more awareness of it. people say it's overdone. >> a dr. leonard sax written books on it. girls on the edge and he says that because the genders learn differently, you see boys diagnosed at higher rates and medicated at higher rates when there are things to do without medication that help them. >> do you name drop a lot on the show? >> well, dr. leonard sax is

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very warm good morning to you. it is veterans day, thursday, november 11th. i'm ali velshi. >> i'm kiran chetry. we have a lot to talk about this morning. they'll be home soon, thank goodness. passengers on board a crippled carnival cruise line, they ended up going for a drama after the engine fire left the ship powerless. 4,500 people stranded. still in the pacific ocean. president obama under pressure at the g-20 summit under way in seoul, south korea. his plan is to revive the u.s. economy coming under fire and there's a new development this morning. a deal in the works between the u.s. and south korea that could mean 70,000 new jobs for americans is on the ropes. also, what gives? the commission created to seriously tackle the deficit out with its list of what needs to be cut. the recommendations could

seriously impact your bottom line. from your retirement to your taxes to what you're able to write off. we're breaking it down this morning. up first, long vacation nightmare is nearly over. passengers on board carnival "splendor" say they can see the california coastline. five tug boats are tugging it to shore. it was stuck powerless after an engine failure. >> the passengers had no hot water, no hot food and for a time no working bathrooms. cnn producer paul vercammen is following the developments. >> reporter: executives say their cruise ship will be pulled into san diego harbor midday on thursday. carnival also promising those passengers aboard the disabled ship to get full refunds, that they will be put up in hotels if they need to, some of them shuttled to long beach where many of them parked and other that is flew in from other parts of the condition tri will be flown out of san diego.

meantime, the "uss ronald reagan" played a big role of helping the ship out at sea and back on maneuvers today but as you can imagine, after air lifting some 60 palettes of food, sup ploys, wert and the food on to the cruise ship, this was quite a different mission from many of the pilots supporting u.s. troops in places like iraq and afghanistan. >> very rewarding. what we do, obviously, there's goods and bads when you're in the middle of warfare and doing your job but this is an all an upside. we're helping out people in distress. it's an opportunity, actually, to improve the lives of folks in dire straits so it's great. it's a great opportunity. >> reporter: the aircraft carrier pilots dropped some 60 palettes of food, water and supplies on to the carnival ship. who pays for this? carnival picks up the cost of the supplies and the u.s. navy pays for the fuel, aircraft and the rest. paul vercammen cnn, california.

looks like president obama is taking on the world. the far cry from how these things looked a couple of years ago when the world was coming together. the president attended a working dinner this morning and they have been bashing the plan to pump $600 billion of new money into the american economy. a plan the mfinance minister of germany called clueless. >> what is it? it's a yearly meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries and the european union. the g-20 nations represent 90% of the world's economic output. 80% of the world's trade. and two thirds of the world's population. >> dan lothian is traveling with the president and joining us live from seoul this morning. >> dan, the u.s. and south koreans have been working on the big trade deal, set to possibly bring thousands of new jobs to america. what is the latest with that? >> reporter: that's right. 70,000 jobs to be exact and the president says pump $10 billion

into the u.s. economy. this was something that the white house had really hoped that they could get locked down here at the g-20. they said they had been making significant progress on this but it's not going to get done here. the president hopeful that it will get done in the next few months weeks and not months. sticking points is opening up the south korean market to u.s. beef and auto imports, as well. they've been negotiating right down to the last minute and one point they had thought that perhaps they could get it done. but they realized that there weren't enough hours really to get this hashed out. this is critical because, again, the president has been looking increasingly overseas to create jobs back at home and this particular trip to four asian countries is a focus of the administration on asian markets where u.s. goods can go and then create jobs back at home. at this president has been getting a lot of pressure as you know back at home because stimulus simply is not creating the jobs that everyone expected. >> dan, there's an also report

out there. talk about the united states. a report out that white house adviser david axelrod is suggesting this administration is ready to aaccept an across the board continuation of the bush-era tax cuts that the president said in the campaign up to the midterm he was not interested in. what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: listen. the only reaction we are getting here from the white house to that is simply there's nothing new here that the president has been saying now in recent days that he's open to compromise on this issue. white house deputy communication director jen saki said, quote, the president is clear extending tax cuts for middle class families is his top prior. he has also expressed concern about the cost of making the highest income tax permanent and looking forward to discussing this and other issues with bipartisan congressional leaders next week.

ali, as you know, the president talked about this upper tier americans, tax cuts for them, extending the tax cuts cost america about $700 billion. he says that's something that simply cannot afford and that's the reason he's been against this, but the administration signaling that the president is willing to negotiate on this issue in order to get this moving forward. >> all right. dan lothian for us this morning, thanks. also signs of progress toward putting the alleged 9/11 master mind khalid shaikh mohammed on trial. attorney general holder said yesterday administration officials are close to a decision on the trial's location. >> process is ongoing. we are working to make a determination about the placement of that trial. i would hope that whenever the decision is one to be judged on the merits and what's best for the case and for justice in that case will be the thing that will guide the decision. >> holder's initial plan was to try mohammed and other 9/11

suspects in new york. that plan was then put on hold after new york officials and some members of the congress objected to that. okay. this story's been with us for a few days. a mystery plume over california that baffled everyone from the pacific all the way to the pentagon. remember this? it looks like what you'd see after a vapor trail from a rocket and the end of it there's an illuminated thing. looks like a thruster or something that looked like fire. this morning, we have answers. pentagon official say there's no answer, condensation trail of a plane and nothing to suggest it was a missile or anything else. i looked at that. there's something at the end of it that doesn't look like plane. it's not usually bright at the end of a va par trail but the pentagon says that, we have to believe it. >> the optical illusion. the thing that med it a three-day story, chris lawrence was on yesterday and the pentagon wouldn't say what it was when it first happened. >> say for sure it was a plane,

say which one it was. i'm not a conspiracy theorist. it looked interesting to me. >> a lot of other people, as well. it fell the wrong way. this was a demolition that went the wrong way. smokestack in ohio and there you see it falling. not supposed to fall on the wires and came wrashing down, almost came down on a group of spectators with children. you can hear people screaming in the background running get out of the way. the tower snapped power lines, crushed part of a power substation. no injuries. traffic lights were out. 8,000 people in the area lost power. >> give me this. people look at these demolitions. if the things 275 feet, nobody should be closer than 500 feet. >> no. >> stay far away. >> they shouldn't. >> it can go the wrong way. all right. coming up next, this is a shocking, shocking story. there's even video. a high school boy's basketball coach is sued by the players for allegedly whipping them with a

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we have been looking carefully at shocking video this morning. grainy stuff on a cell phone but you take a look at a listen and tell me what you think. okay. here's what it allegedly is. a high school basketball coach whipping a player for blowing a play in high school. this is in jackson, mississippi. parents have filed a lawsuit against the school district. waiting to see what happens to the coach. reports say he's now on leave. joining us now is jason hub bart, his 15-year-old son is a player apparently hit and their attorney is with us and respecting a number of students involved in the lawsuit. welcome to both of you. jason, first of all, that is not your son in the video, is it? >> no, sir. it's not. >> all right. what did you -- according to

you, what happened? what did your son tell you happened? >> well, i was actually there on the 22nd of september in the practice. and that was my first time observing the hits or the whippings from the coach. and i immediately felt very bad and went home and told my wife about it and talked to her about it. she was upset. and disappointed in that. and after that, i went back to practice again sunday evening and didn't see anything because i had stepped out of practice. but i saw it again on monday evening which gave me great concern for our boys. >> so he did this knowing there were parents around, knowing there were adults around? >> yes, sir. yes, sir. >> this is fascinating. this is -- he used -- what was it? a belt? i can't tell from the video. >> a weightlifting belt. >> what was the reaction from the kids getting hit? >> well, some -- the ones that wasn't getting hit at the time,

they were laughing and joking and the ones that were getting hit, i know they felt bad. i can see the content of their face and it was very, very disturbing to me to watch them be humiliated like that. >> lisa, let me just read the coach, his response to this. coach dorsi says, quote, i took it upon myself to save these young men of destruction of self and what society has accepted and become silent to the issues of students are facing on daily. i'm deeply remorseful of my actions to help our students. i don't know what dorsi means by that. tell me from a legal perspective, is what we see on the video, what we see on the cell phone video srks that legal? >> we believe it's illegal and it was unlawful for the coach to hit these students. in this particular case, the students had engaged in no misconduct. they had done absolutely nothing wrong. except run a basketball play

incorrectly. and we believe that it's unlawful for any teacher to hit a student merely because the student ran a play wrong. >> jason, your son apparently was whipped himself and didn't tell you because he was afraid he might get kicked off the team. your wife encouraged you to talk to the principaprincipal. how did that conversation go? >> we talked in the bedroom one night and asked him why didn't he tell me earlier? his words were, i thought i wouldn't get on the floor to play during the game. and that was very disturbing at the time because we have great relationship with our kids. my wife and i. and just about anything that they know or we know we talk about it. and the fear of not playing was very disturbing -- they had to trust in the coach and when -- having that trust went a little bit too far with the kids

putting fear into them. and for them to take abuse like that. i thought it was very unfair but the conversation that we had with him, he confessed that the whippings did hurt and he only took them because he had to take them to play. >> lisa, how many students are you representing? how many students do you think were actually hit? >> i'm representing three different young men who play on the basketball team. and we believe that a majority of the players on the team were hit. one of my clients was hit almost daily and sometimes more than -- he had the punishment administered to him more than once daily. during the practices. >> what are you going to be satisfied with? are you looking for damages out of this or the coach disciplined or fired? >> well, we want the coach disciplined.

we want compensatory damages for the unlawful touching of my clients and jackson public schools to teach their coaches that -- not to act like coach dorsi. we do not want students being beat just for an opportunity to participate in a sporting activity. >> lisa ross is an attorney representing plaintiffs against coach marlon dorsi. he's an assistant coach brandon sanders at frederick murray and the principal at the jackson public school district. jason murphy, the father of a boy that was beaten or allegedly beaten by the coach with a weightlifting belt. thank you for joining us. all right. 18 minutes past the hour. and we are going to be right back. [ j. weissman ] it was 1975.

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we lean in. >> this feels odd. we need to show the video here. >> love it. >> the story we're talking about is night owls versus morning people. there's a new study suggesting if you like to stay up later, you have a higher iq and not all good for because if you are that type of person as opposed to aerlly riser -- >> studies say. >> you're less reliable. early risers work harder and get better grades. >> i would have guessed in the sur vi to be an early riser. >> me, too. slightly more of an early riser than a night owl. >> we should score high on the early riser to do this show. if you have a sweet tooth, this is not sweet for you. the price of chocolate could be going up. foormers in west africa given up on planting cocoa trees. they earn less than a dollar a day of selling the cocoa to corporations.

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i can't talk about it too much because the audience is going to be pretty happy when they see what i'm going to do but it's a lot of fun. it's not exactly is situation room. it will be a little different. different side of wolf. growing up in buffalo, new york. and i remember vividly saturday mornings watching don cornelius. the favorite groups. jackson 5. they were all there. the kids were dancing. we had a lot of soul. >> yeah. >> it was very, very cool. and that's why i'm here because soul train was part of my life. >> just never going to grow old listening to wolf in that voice say -- >> we've got a lot of soul. >> yeah. i love him. i love wolf. >> hey, this is something -- we all love wolf. he is off the treadmill now and probably not watching. >> i can do my ellen imitation dance of him. >> do you say it's on like donkey congress? >> i don't. >> i don't either. but you may own nintendo.

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breaking news right now. this is live pictures. these are live pictures as the carnival cruise ship "the splendor" making the way into san diego harbor. you may remember it suffered from an engine fire, left it powerless back on monday and stranded the 4,500 passengers and crew out there in the pacific ocean. took five tug boats to finally pull this cruise ship, i think about 100 miles out in the ocean. >> yeah. had to get food put on to the ship. sent the pop tarts. >> and spam. >> the toilets weren't working. air conditioning not working. it wasn't overly hot. in the cabin it can be hot. carnival offering passengers refunds and a free cruise in the future. >> going to be pretty costly for carnival. they had to get the "uss ronald reagan" to get out there to deliver 60,000 pounds of food. >> but what we have seen with cruises where not a lot goes wrong on cruises and if they act -- still a very, very

popular way to travel and it saves the reputation if they act fast w. the virus and taking them a while to act, they were seeing massive cancelations but truly when i watch this happen, i think to myself, i'm a guy to go on a cruise. that's not going to make me not want to go on a cruise. it happens so rarely and they took care of them. we talked to a woman that thought they handled it quite well. >> she would take them up on the offer to cruise, not be stuck. there's the carnival "splendor" tugged into san diego harbor. >> it's on a camera in the dark. >> and probably seeing people disembark at some point. we'll bring it back live. president obama starting two days of talks with leaders of the world's most powerful economies and some of the world's fastest growing economies. this is the g-20, group of 20 summit in seoul, south korea. security, obviously, very, very tight.

more than 50,000 police officers deployed. wide-spread demonstrations expected between now and tomorrow. the president already taking a lot of heat for the federal reservel's plan announced last week, qe-2 for the infusion of u.s. economy with $600 billion in brand-new money. >> all right. today's veterans day. a day to pause to remember those that served our country bravely and nobly. through the generations. today president obama honoring veterans day in south korea paying tribute to the men and women in the military and called the korean war a victory for freedom and now live pictures of arlington national cemetery where in two and a half hours 11:00 a.m. eastern time vice president joe biden will be laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown. drastic measures for desperate times. the commission out with their plan to slash trillions of dollars from the federal can he

have s-- federal deficit. nothing is off the table. >> some changes to write-offs that businesses and individuals have come to expect and rely on. christine romans joins with us a break down of the plan and it is only a proposal. has to make the way through congress and approved by a majority of people on the commission. >> this is the first move in a chess game to go on for a long time with very high stakes affect every one of us, every soldier, every educator, every man, woman, child, retiree in the country. all of these things affect you. $14 trillion in red ink. this is the backdrop for everything that you're going to be hearing over the next days and months about how to get the country's finances in order. there are 12 zeros on there. 14 trillion. that's how much money the country spent and hasn't paid for and we have deficits basically as far as the eye can see. when's the commission recommending? recommending getting rid of very

popular tax breaks in exchange for a more simple tax code where there are only three tax rates for us and those tax rates are lower. eliminating or scaling back the home mortgage deduction is a thing. a sacred cow that's right out there for people to talk about. also, at the gas pump, a 15-cent increase in the gas tax to pay for highway improvements and the transportation fund so that will be out of your pocket. a 15-cent increase in the gas tax. here's something on veterans day no less to be talking about big, huge lasting cuts to the american military. cut defense spending by $100 billion. and cut the number of military bases overseas by a third. there's an awful lot in there. it's more than just targeting waste and abuse in many of these agencies including the department of defense and significant cuts in just about every part of the government that you can imagine. >> this is a proposal? blue ribbon commission. >> right. >> highly expected.

do we know whether this is likely to go further? >> it is the draft of the proposal. >> right, right. real proposal comes out december 1st. >> this is the first move in the chess game. 14 of the 18 members of the commission have to agree. and then that proposal moves along to congress and goes from there. congress can write legislation. can change legislation. what is coming out is not binding. >> people speaking out including nancy pelosi and others. >> hearing more from the left than the right. you haven't heard from conservatives crying yet about cuts to the military and some of these tax changes but you have heard from the left, dick durbin, for example, he hates this like a priest hates holy water. they're very -- >> the devil hates. >> i think the priest likes it. oh my gosh. >> step away from the desk before we all get hit with lightning. that will wrap up the report for the morning. >> i have to back away. >> nancy pelosi, she said that this was absolutely unworkable for her.

this plan. but the president in south korea said let's not shoot down anything yet until we read it. >> as you mentioned, one of the places to take a hit is pentagon. $100 billion hit quite possibly. >> we bring in pentagon correspondent right now, barbara starr. you got a chance to talk to general petraeus about this and emphasizing a proposal. what is he saying about it? >> i don't know that general petraeus has seen the proposal yet but the pentagon knows about this. and they know that they are right in the crosshairs right now. defense secretary robert gates already made defense spending one of the signature issues. he wants to cut $100 billion but he wanted to reinvest that money in things he believes the troops needs. now they're talking about just applying that to the deficit. so how is this all going to work? and really, this is a political cross hairs. gates is expected the leave next year. republican majority coming in. does he lose his nojo.

will anybody pay attention? a central issue is military health care. the cost doubled in recent years. gates wanted to get a handle on that. the republicans are not likely to let him do anything to try to raise the cost of health care to the troops. >> right here in the proposal it says reform tricare for life to increased cost sharing to military retirees and sounds like putting more of the cost on retirees for the health care. tricare is something that is -- >> you want to talk about holy water. raising the cost of health care to the troops and families is one of the -- there's just no way to say how sensitive that is. >> they even took it out of health care reform. took it out because they didn't want to worry -- didn't want to worry the veterans and retirees and active military. >> it is back on the table. >> this is a fight that they're not going to give up easily. >> this is not an easy solution. barbara, thanks, so much. christine, as always, thanks so

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just seeing how this looks on the wall. >> one of the best -- >> every year "time" magazine selects the 50 best inventions of the year and change the way the way we live. >> that's right. this year we have jet pack. we have an iron man suit. >> excellent. >> flying car. some of the remarkable innovations and raika jones is here to show and tell us about them. thank you for being here this morning. >> gm. >> jet blast wall paper. >> x-flex blast protection. tell us about this one. >> this is what you want on your walls if you might be getting bombed, if you live on a fault line, having an earthquake. it's basically it's a strengthening wall paper, literally sticks on, bonds with a wall and makes it so much stronger that it's hard to even destroy it with a wrecking wall. >> adds to the structure?

>> yeah. >> this is how thin it is. kef lar woven into this. >> it's amazing. doesn't come in martha stewart colors but you stick it on the wl and the wall is much stronger. developed in partnership with the army corps of engineers and considering it for u.s. bases overseas. >> smart idea. also wondering to help in places that are earthquake-prone. we saw the devastation in haiti and also in our west coast. >> exactly. seems like it would. and they're looking to develop a civilian model in the next couple of years. >> all right. yesterday, i spoke to a woman who had been paralyzed for 18 years. from the waist down. >> skiing accident. >> and she has within of the devices that you talk here. e-legs exoskeleton. he was able to walk and we were walking and talking. that's a remarkable invention, i think. >> yeah. you have just said it all. the psychological lift, let alone the actual lift for

someone who's in a wheelchair to be able to get up and walk. it's basically the crutches read arm gestures and signal to the robotic legs and then they -- that simulates the human gait. it is an amazing step for anyone confined to a chair. >> it sure is. this is one that's probably the ubiquitous which is the ipad. people say, wait a minute, ali was a skeptic. took the iphone and added some tablet pc -- >> a tablet pc. not a big buyer of an invention. >> why are they buying? >> you can take a picture with it. i've stopped being skeptical of steve jobs. when he says something is magical, i believe it. ipad, people did the tablet computer before. this is a device that's beautiful. it's addictive. not so much that we need it but we want it and that i think is apple's big secret. >> talk about the one i want and that is the jet pack. i don't know what it's officially called. the martin jet pack. you call this the most

anticipated invention. i think we are anticipating since we watched "the jetsons." >> exactly. you can't talk about the inventions of the year without checking in on the jet pack. seems like it is closer. looks like two leaf blow earls harnessed together, not terribly confidence inspiring but it can get people up to 8,000 feet and i think it runs for about 30 minutes. >> besides the fact you're a boy at heart. >> i want one tomorrow. >> what would you use it for? >> 8,000 feet in the air. i want a gator to drive around property i don't have. i'm a boy. >> i got it. now i get this one. there is another one that's really cool that a lot of people love. this is the plane that can land anywhere, right? >> fascinating to me. >> awesome. so cool we'll take a break and come back and talk to the inventor of this plane, as well. >> a plane and a car. >> there it goes. how cool could you be? radika jones, thank you for

showing us these. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. it's true. you never forget your first subaru.

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tarafugia and designed this flying car. joining us from los angeles. it's a street legal and air worthy vehicle. it costs about $200,000. which is less than a lamborghini. first models delivered next year. 35 miles a gallon up on ground. drives at about 65 miles per hour and it fits in a standard garage and it's an airplane. i mean, honestly. you think that -- i'm a boy. i like that. >> yeah. how did you think of this one, carl? >> well, i'm a pilot and this vehicle really directly addresses the problems that pilots face on a daily basis. in addition, a potential to really kind of change the way people think about traveling between 50 and about 400 miles on a regular basis. >> tell me how it works. you drive, get out of the house in the morning. how many people does it seat? >> it seats two people. and yeah, drives down the road like a normal car. you drive to the nearest airport.

you unfold the wings in less than a minute. you go around, do your pre-flight inspection. you take off. fold up your wings and drive to the door of where you want to be. >> that is amazing. >> makes better use -- yeah. makes better use of the network of 5,000 public airports around the country. >> it uses regular gas. what -- regular meaning automotive gas opposed to jet fuel. >> how hard to learn how to fly? >> well, actually, there's a new type of pilot's license to get right now that takes half the time and half the money of the traditional pilot's license and has restrictions on it but you can get it in as little as two weeks. >> whoa. >> that would qualify you to operate this. >> don't go flying with somebody that got it in two weeks, i would recommend. carl, how safe is this both as a car and as a plane? >> well, that's one of the things that we feel very good

about is we have set the highest bar in the industry of safety. it's to the general aviation industry, a pretty old industry, actually. we are doing things like simulated crash testing. safety zones. you have them in a modern car and bringing them to light aircraft and in addition to that, we have a rocket-deployed parachute system to bring it down under a parachute. >> first models out next year. how do you envision this? who's the market for this when you envision it? >> the market primarily is pilots or people who are willing to become pilots to have the freedom and flexibility of operating this sort of vehicle and it really does address a lot of the problems that segment of customers face on a regular basis. you know, if you wind up commuting more than an hour a day, you might want to think about something like this.

and taking the time and learning to become a pilot in order to operate this sort of vehicle. >> so, ali could fly from atlanta -- >> fly philly, fly here. a gift for me. >> we have an employee who commutes an hour and a half each way and we keep joking this is -- we're making his vehicle. this is perfect for him. >> it is great. carl, thanks so much for joining us. congratulations. carl dietrich, co-founder and ceo of the terra fugia. >> wings unfold. pretty cool. carl, thanks so much. one of the other top inventions is the iron man suit and designed to give soldiers super strength. you can lift 200 pounds without breaking a sweat. could help if you had to be in a war zone and needing to have ordinance. chris lawrence got a firsthand look at how it works.

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what a pretty shot. >> it is. >> don't you wish you were there? >> i'm right there. this is out our window basically. happy to be back. >> i'm just teasing you because you weren't that excited about the miami tower cam. >> i love miami. i just feel like we're compelled to nice things with a picture up. >> gorgeous. sunny all day. 45 right now. 54 a little bit later. what a day for a walk in the park. perfect autumn afternoon. >> love autumn. it's looking the rest of the country? >> i don't know. let's ask rob marciano. >> sorry, you know, there's a

lot of stuff going on here. could somebody turn that monitor down? setting up for the big 9:00 hour. fredericka. >> we have six more minutes to pay attention to us. >> what is going on? like a fight going on over there. >> who needs a -- >> settle down. we'll get to you about -- filling in for kyra phillips. it is an exquisite couple of hours. keep it tuned right here. meanwhile, record warmth in the eastern half of the country and cold temperatures. 15 to 20 degrees below average what it's expected across parts of the rockies. snow in denver. maybe a couple of inches there. and then a little rain, ribbon of rain up towards chicago. this is riding along a front that's kind of stalls. also, a little bit of the flow off of lake erie causing fog in northern ohio and in through parts of detroit, as well. warm air bumping into the cooler, most air. waterlo, iowa, 69.

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well, jay leno loves to talk about us about times. he liked the take on a particular story. so here's what he did. >> during obama's trip to india, press secretary robert gibbs got into a confrontation with indian officials. they refused to let american reporters into the press conference and he put his foot in the door and he really had a confrontation with the guy outside. take a look. here's gibbs. >> white house press secretary robert gibbs had to get a little rough with security in india. it happened while the president